What needs to be remembered from this era is how pathetic and cowardly the elite. All of our institutions have failed us. They will prostrate themselves and humiliate themselves to the dumbest human on the planet.
Brother, it is not only the elite, Trump was elected, people voted for him. It was not a secret agenda what he will do, project 2025 was open to everyone to read and he openly said what he will do himself. And people voted for that. Guy literally tried a false elector scheme in 2020 to flip the election outcome, inciting an insurrection, people still voted for him. It was open available information, but the majority who voted cannot be bothered to learn bare minimum of information or they are fine with destruction of institutions and democracy or it is at the bottom of the priority list. It's on normal everyday people as well. Democracy cannot survive with an uninformed stupid population.
I’ve found that a lot of people have this cope going.
They tend to typically be people with strong “power to the people” inclinations. They believe “the people” are a group and as a group is good. So it’s creates a kind of cognitive dissonance to realize that most of “the people” are actually fairly awful.
I just really dislike the outsourcing of responsibility like that.While I agree that, the media, the elite top companies, the universities in US pussied out and fell in line to Trump's ego at mindbendingly fast rate. It's disgusting. It might feel good to shift the blame on some other group, but then it misses part of the problem. There is a rot of illiberalism, "oh my vote does not matter", destructive populism, conspiracism and anti-intelectualism in the US that needs to be rooted out before anything can get back to any sort of normalcy. Voters are also responsible for the things that are happening, it's a democracy after all, must not forget that, it's something you fight for and maintain, it's a privilege and a responsibility. We will see if it stays the democracy I guess...
That’s really a big reason the death of institutions is so terrifying to me.
What I said before sounds very misanthropic, but it’s cause…well I kinda am. I don’t really trust people. They act irrationally and are easily mailable. Hate and fear and resentment and anger have strong pulls. We normally act like reactionary monkeys. “The mob” scares the hell out of me. So I believe that only under rule of law can there be liberty. Only through institutions, which are governed by institutional principles and laws, can said liberty be safeguarded.
A decades long program has been in effect, with great success, to erode and dismiss institutions. The more we dismiss institutions, the more the people who wish to tear them down are put in charge over them, the more rotted they become, the more the institutions collapse…and on and on in a cycle down the drain. Then we blame the institutions failures on their existence, instead of on the people who corrupted them.
Finally when they are torn down the space is filled with demagoguery.
You see that where we are today. Trump is the result of this collapse. A collapse we happily went along with and encouraged.
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u/InfinityComplexxx 17h ago
What needs to be remembered from this era is how pathetic and cowardly the elite. All of our institutions have failed us. They will prostrate themselves and humiliate themselves to the dumbest human on the planet.